Inner Ear Damage: IGN Music Podcast #8

This is the first IGN Music podcast of this, the Year of the Ox, and we kick it off by having EIC Spence D. drop some verbiage on the solo tip.

While Inner Ear Damage has gained a small, loyal following thanks to the combined antics of Michael Thomsen, Colin Moriarty, and myself, this time around I thought I'd see how I fared by my lonesome.

To this end I decided to bust out with my personal Top 10 of 2008 (not to be confused with IGN Music's "Best of 2008" or the Gibson.com piece we highlighted about the "Worst of 2008).

These are the 10 albums and several "Honorable Mentions" that I found myself listening to over and over again last year (and even still now, since 2009 is getting off to a somewhat slow start).

If you like "Best of" lists, hopefully this will fit the bill. But really I just wanted to share some insights into the music that rocked my world over the past 12 months. These are the albums that reminded me of why I began writing about music and fell into the gig of "Entertainment Journalist" in the first place.

If nothing else I hope that you'll get turned on to at least one of the artists I mention in the p-cast, hopefully more, as all of them are worthy of your ear time.

At any rate, enjoy and as always drop us some feedback and let us know what's on your mind and what you'd like to hear us verbally riff about in the future.